[IAEP] Announcing a development sprint in Maine to work on getting Sugar in the Maine based 1 to 1 for netbooks in schools spin.

[Caroline Meeks]

FOSSED is a major open source for educators conference in Maine that both
teachers and developers attend.  This year we will be working to bring
together developers with interested in Sugar are invited to come and work
with the developers are already working with schools in Maine.

Here is some background:

Many of you may know that Maine has lead the way in the US with 1 on 1 Apple
laptops for middle schoolers, paid for out of the state budget for the last
several years.

What you may not have heard is when the state expanded the program a bit
over a year ago the state wanted many districts to pay $250 per year to
lease apple laptops with software for middle and high school students.

Many of Maine's towns and rural areas thought that was too much! So they
came together and formed a coalition. They created their own open source
distro packed with educational software: open1to1.org.  They negotiated a
deal to buy netbooks for $289 (buy not lease!)

About 3000 students are using open source in Maine today!  The project url
is: http://open1to1.org

Now they want to add Sugar to Open 1 to 1!! :)

Please come help us kick off this effort in Maine July 7th to 9th!!!

The conference url is http://www.fossed.com/.  Developers will receive a
VERY significant discount (probably about half price, details are being
worked out now) and still get lodging, all you can eat great food and access
to sessions.


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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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